SOLUTION: the sum of an arithmetic progression in which there are 4 terms the largest number is 4 times of its smallest number then what are the numbers

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Question 766348: the sum of an arithmetic progression in which there are 4 terms the largest number is 4 times of its smallest number then what are the numbers
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Try again. Something is missing. The sum? What about the sum?

Four terms, difference is d, first term, a. Both of them are unknown.

These are the terms, symbolically: a, a+d, a+2d, a+3d.
Largest is four times "its" smallest number: a+3d=4a.

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